Key and Suggestion

Key

Key noun - An explanatory list of the symbols on a map or chart.

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Suggestion and key are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Suggestion" instead a noun "Key".

Nearby Words: keyed, keyboard, keying

Suggestion noun - A slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation).

Usage example: if you don't want to give the suggestion that you're evading the truth, you must look your questioner in the eye

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Key and suggestion are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Key" instead a noun "Suggestion".

original	original key	original suggestion
light	light key	light suggestion
simple	simple key	simple suggestion
powerful	powerful key	powerful suggestion
Other adjectives: actual, real, new, possible, strange, last.

Under Mantis' suggestion, Liquid decides to manipulate Snake into using the PAL key to activate the code to override the nuke's safety precautions instead.

Source: Videogame / Metal Gear Solid
So despite the suggestion that "the key is change, getting over all your problems", we're left thinking that he's maybe protesting a little too much.

Source: Anti-Love Song
Driven by her love and grief, Yukari decided to take the chance, against everyone else's suggestion (Excepting Mitsuru), and wanted to use the key to go back in time.

Source: Five Stages of Grief

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Suggestion and Key. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/key/suggestion

Key & Suggestion. N.p., 2016. Web. 03 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/key/suggestion>.

Suggestion or Key. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/key/suggestion.

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